Rennie Ellis - Life's A Beach

Life’s a Beach is Rennie Ellis’s sun-soaked portrait of Australia’s beach culture, spanning the 1970s and 1980s. With his candid, playful eye, Ellis captures everything from bronzed surfers and lifesavers to beachgoers sprawled on the sand, families at play, and the cheeky antics that unfold by the shoreline. The book celebrates the beach as Australia’s great social equaliser—a place of freedom, fun, and sometimes mischief—making it one of Ellis’s most iconic explorations of national identity.